The lives we Live!

• Snoozing on that 6:30 alarm and wanting to stay in your bed for a little longer - but you can't!
• Saying your kids - "Not this weekend - we will try for the next, have to be in office this saturday"
• Calling up your wife or Mother to say - "I will be late today, please have your dinner"
• Cancelling your tickets, to your planned vacation, at the last moment because something urgent or an important proposal has come up at office !
• How many times you could not attend a close relatives marriage and wished him over long distance call because you are posted in a far off country!
• How many times you felt that you are getting selish but you have to go on!!

 How many times have you experienced this, I am sure often.

 

Do not worry, most of us are going through this and slowly we are getting pulled into a situation where we stop doing things which are natural, which our heart wants.

 

Slowly we position ourselves in a place where we have walked far away from our families and so close to our work that it starts feeling 12 hours in office is better than 12 hours in home!

 

Where buying a longer car, a new watch or a new piece of jewellery brings in more happiness than eating together with the family or where trying to be on top of the societal hierarchy brings in more pleasure than helping others.

 

Is this the life we asked for?

 

I am sure your answer will be a big "No". So why not re-write the equations one more time. Equations which are net positive - positive for "Us - my family" and "Me"; where we take decisions not based on the value of the Pay Cheque but value of the relationship, where we talk freely and move with out boundaries !

 

Disclaimer: I do not want to mean that one should not be ambitous enough - but we need to see that at what cost!